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And when old Gil appeared suddenly, while we were still chewing the melancholy cud of Kit's announcement, and cried sepulchrally, "M. le Vidame de Bezers to pay his respects to Mademoiselle!" Well, there was something like a panic, I confess! We scrambled to our feet, muttering, "The Wolf!" The entrance at Caylus is by a ramp rising from the gateway to the level of the terrace.
"He lives up in the big house on the bluff, where the pine and maples are." The old woman shook her head placidly. "I not go up that bluff in forty-eight year." Kit's eyes widened with quick interest. Just then a girl a little older than herself came out of the kitchen door. Two long braids of straight brown hair hung over her shoulders, and her dress was slouchy and gypsy-like.
The same thought was in my mind. How could we leave these people? How could we leave madame in her danger and distress? How could we return her kindness by desertion? We could not. No, not for Kit's sake. Because after all Louis, our Louis, was a man, and must take his chance. He must take his chance. But I groaned. So that was settled.
"I say! are you the famous Kit Carson, who knows this country so well?" "Are you really a good pilot, or are you lost?" These and similar expressions saluted Kit's ear a language to which he had not been heretofore accustomed as some impediment, such as a fallen tree, a rock, a swamp, or a creek staid, for a brief period, his progress, thus allowing the party to approach within speaking distance.
Oh, Kit's a dear; but you never can tell whether he's going to like people or not. He likes so very few." "But he liked Elise?" "Oh, yes; in a general way. But, for some reason I can't make out, he was terribly disappointed in her." "And he's going to play at your musicale?" "Yes; and I want you to sing. We have two or three other musicians, and it will really be rather worth while."
Was there ever such a mother as Kit's mother, on her son's showing; or was there ever such comfort in poverty as in the poverty of Kit's family, if any correct judgment might be arrived at, from his own glowing account! And let me linger in this place, for an instant, to remark that if ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor.
"I am behaving, Philip," and Patty looked very meek. "Of course you are," said Marie; "you're behaving beautifully. And you look like an angel, and you sang like a lark, and if you're Kit's Girl, I'm glad of it. Now come on, everybody's going to supper." "You come along with me," said Philip Van Reypen, as he took Patty by the arm. "Why?" And Patty looked a little defiant at this command.
"Nelson, sir!" The word went home. The boy shot in, and slammed the door. All again was darkness, and Blob breathing heavily at his side. "I'm through! I'm through!" came a triumphant yell. Kit's eye was at a crack. The Parson had broken away from the rout, and was making for the hills, the despatch-bag flopping in his back. The Gentleman, leading the charge at the cottage, turned.
No such radical emotions, however, troubled Kit's mind. She too stood at the windows and looked down into the street. There was a sort of complacent calm in the manner in which she viewed the girls' hats and dresses. Many of them were really pretty, she told herself, but for the most part they were not better than what she had had down home.
"All right, but I'd mighty well like to go with you," said Kit, who, although he was eager to be in the fight that he knew would come off if Ted found that Shan Rhue had anything to do with the abduction of Stella, was not one to get disgruntled. Ted would have been well pleased to have Kit with him, but Kit's arm was not yet well enough to risk in a possible rough-and-tumble adventure.
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